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Chinese military aircraft had sometimes forced Canadian planes to divert from their flight paths, Canada's military said last week.

Trudeau said Monday that Canada is participating in a UN mission to make sure sanctions against North Korea are properly enforced. Chinese ships are suspected of taking part in the transfers. China claims numerous small islands and reefs in the South China Sea, and says the area around these outcroppings are its territorial waters and airspace.

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the actions of China toward Canadian planes that were taking part in a ...

Wu said in a statement that Canada has stepped up close reconnaissance of China under the pretext of implementing UN sanctions. The waters are an important shipping lane for all countries in the region, including Australia, which along with the United States says it wants to ensure freedom of navigation through them. The U.S. and Japan have also participated in the surveillance. Last week, the Canadian military accused Chinese planes of not following international safety norms on several occasions and putting a Canadian crew at risk. Chinese ships are suspected of taking part in the transfers. A 2001 collision between a U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese air force jet resulted in the death of the Chinese pilot and the 10-day detention of the U.S. aircrew by China.

Canadian planes enforcing UN North Korea sanctions had to avoid colliding with Chinese jets in encounter in international airspace.

And at times Chinese planes tried to divert Canadian aircraft from their flight path and flew so close that the crew was “very clearly visible”, the statement read. Beijing on Monday warned Australia to “act prudently” or face “serious consequences” after the accusation. In some instances, the Canadian crew had to quickly modify their flight path to “avoid a potential collision with the intercepting aircraft”, the Canadian military said in a statement last week.

“The UN Security Council has never authorized any country to carry out military surveillance in the seas and airspace of other countries in the name of ...

The statement added that the plane was on a “routine maritime surveillance” mission in international airspace above the South China Sea. Relations between Canada and China remain in what former Canadian ambassador David Mulroney recently described as a “deep freeze,” after Beijing jailed two Canadians for more than 1,000 days in an apparent act of retaliation. “China urges Canada to see the severity of the incident and refrain from taking any adventurist or provocative moves. We continue to stand up for the principles of the UN Charter.” The area under patrol includes the contested East China Sea, above which China established an aircraft defence identification zone in 2013. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian suggested during a media briefing in Beijing on Monday that these patrols by Canadian and allied aircraft are illegal.

Canada had previously accused China of harassing its pilots during patrols to monitor UN sanctions on North Korea. China Jets. Planes from the Chinese People's ...

“Canada is an active part of an important mission in the North Pacific to ensure that the sanctions applied to North Korea are properly enforced and the fact that China would have chosen to do this is extremely troubling,” Trudeau said. Last week, the Canadian Armed Forces said interactions between Canadian and Chinese aircraft have become more frequent in recent times, accusing Chinese pilots of not “adhere to international air safety norms” and putting the safety of Canadian personnel at risk. China has accused Canadian military jets of stepping up reconnaissance and “provocations” against the country, with its foreign ministry warning Ottawa of potential “severe consequences”.